Chapter 57
LUCY
Nia had performed admirably, even if Eddie was suspicious of her by the end.
It’s not like I could have expected perfection, but she’d accomplished what I wanted and had proved what I feared to be true.
EDDIE. HAD. BEEN. FULL. OF. SHIT. FROM. THE. BEGINNING.
My father had been right. This had all been a charade.
I couldn’t think of an excuse Eddie could muster to explain how he’d forgotten so much about The Shadow of the Wind.
It’s not like we’d been married ten years, and the book was something from his distant past. We’d met each other less than eighteen months ago, and if he loved the book as much as he’d initially said, then surely he’d remember the name of the main character.
Shit, he took two extra seconds just to remember the name of the novel.
To be fair, I should have been suspicious of this story well before Nia questioned him. I mean, when was the last time I saw Eddie reading a book? Three months? Six months? Had I ever? And yet The Shadow of the Wind, which is not an easy book to read, had left this amazing impression on him?
I was calling bullshit.
Now to the bigger question. Was it time to divorce Eddie Sykes? Time to get my name back. I’d never really become accustomed to Sykes being my last name. It would be a welcome return to being Lucy Tanner.
The fact that we’d been married less than a year was both a blessing and a curse. I hated it, since I still took my wedding vows seriously, and not only did I not last Till Death Do Us Part, but I hadn’t even lasted a year. On the bright side, maybe I could still get the wedding annulled.
And I was young enough that hopefully, in five years or so, Eddie Sykes would be a distant memory.
I hadn’t officially decided I was going to divorce Eddie, but it was certainly trending that way.